OLDEST BIBLICAL LITERATURE
Job 1:21 “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”
Job 10:8-13” Your
hands shaped me and made me. Will
you now turn and destroy me?
Remember
that you molded me like clay. Will
you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out
like milk and curdle me like
cheese,clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and
sinews? You gave
me life and showed me kindness, and in your
providence watched over my spirit. “But this
is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:
Job 33:6 I am the same as you in God’s sight; I too am a piece of clay.
TORAH
Genesis 1:26-27 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 5:1-3 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Genesis 9:5-6 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Genesis 25:21 “And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebecca his wife conceived.”
Genesis 25:23 “two nations are in thy womb” (Jacob and Esau) “and two manner of people.”
Genesis 33:5 “The children which God has graciously given me.”
Exodus 4:11 So the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord?
Exodus 20:13 “Thou shalt not kill.”
Exodus 21:22-23 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Exodus 22:22-23 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; …
Exodus 23:7 “Keep far from false charge, and do not slay the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.”
Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy 32:19 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Deuteronomy 32:39 ‘Now see that I, even I, am He,
And there is no God besides Me;
I kill and I make alive;
I wound and I heal;
2 Kings 17:16-20 “And they forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God…. And they burned their sons and daughters as offerings….Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of His sight.”
WISDOM LITERATURE
Psalm 8 “When I consider Thy heavens, the Works of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; What is man, that Thou doest take thought of him? And the son of man, that Thou dost care for him? Yet Thou hast made him a little lower than God, And dost crown him with glory and majesty! Thou dost make him to rule over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet…. Oh Lord our Lord, How majestic is Thy name in all the earth.”
Psalms 10:14-18 But You have seen, for You observe
trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The
helpless commits himself to You; You are the helper of the
fatherless. Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man;Seek out his
wickedness until You
find none. The Lord is King
forever and ever; The nations have
perished out of His land.
Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their
heart; You will cause Your ear to hear,To do justice to
the fatherless and the oppressed,
That the man of the earth may oppress no more.
Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
Psalm 94:6-9 They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless. Yet they say, “The Lord does not see, Nor does the God of Jacob understand.”Understand, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when will you be wise? He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?
Psalm 119: 73,74 Your hands made me and formed me;give me understanding to learn your commands. May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word.
Psalm 127:3-5 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The
fruit of the womb is a reward. Like
arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the
children of one’s youth.Happy is the
man who has his quiver full of them; They shall not be ashamed,
But shall speak with their
enemies in the gate.
Psalm 139
You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the
darkness will hide me
and
the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be
dark to you;
the
night will shine like the day,
for
darkness is as light to you.
13 For
you created my inmost being;
you
knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am
fearfully and wonderfully made;
your
works are wonderful,
I know
that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I
was made in the secret place,
when I
was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all
the days ordained for me were written in your book
before
one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your
thoughts,[a] God!
How
vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they
would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I
awake, I am still with you.
23 Search
me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Ecclesiastes: 11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Proverbs 6:16-19 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Proverbs 17:6 Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.
Proverbs
24:11-12 ” Rescue those being led away to death;
hold back those staggering toward slaughter.
12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your
life know it?
Will he not repay everyone according to what they have
done?
PROPHETS
Isaiah 10:1,2 “Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees,
Who write misfortune,
Which they have prescribed
2 To rob the needy of justice,
And to take what is right from the
poor of My people,
That widows may be their prey,
Isaiah 44:2 thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44:24 Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that
formed thee from the womb,
I am the Lord that maketh all things;
that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by
myself;
Isaiah 45:9-12 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth? Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. I made the earth, and created man upon it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.'”
Jeremiah 1:4-5 Then the word of the Lord came unto me,
saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;
and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee,
and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jeremiah 7:5-8 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:31 “And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.”
Jeremiah 32:35 “And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”
Amos 1:13 (LB) “The Lord says, ‘The people of Ammon have sinned again and again, and I will not forget it. I will not leave them unpunished any more. For in their wars in Gilead to enlarge their borders, they committed cruel crimes, ripping open pregnant women with their swords.'”
GOSPELS
Matthew 5:21 “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill…”
Matthew 18:10 KJV Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in Heaven.
Matthew 19:13-14 Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them.
14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” 15 When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there.
Luke 1:15 “He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth.”
Luke 1:39-44 39 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40 where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! 43 But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45 Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”
Luke 2:21 “And at the end of eight days, when He was circumcised, He was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.”
Luke 12:7 7 Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Luke 18:15-16 “Now they were bringing even infants to Him that He might touch them, and when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to Him saying, ‘Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.'”
John 9:1-3 “As He passed by, He saw a man blind from his birth, and His disciples asked Him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ Jesus answered, ‘It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.'”
John 10:10 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
John 16:21 “When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is brought into the world.”
New Testament Writings
Acts 17:24 24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[b] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[c]
Acts 17:29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone–an image made by human design and skill.
I Corinthians 6:19-20 “Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own, you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”
Galatians 1:15 “But when He had set me apart before I was born…and had called me through His grace.”
Hebrews 2:17 “Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in every respect, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest.”
James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
James 4:17 “Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”
Revelations 21:8 “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth of fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
Revelations 22:15 “For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.”